I will give the writers this, they at least built up to it but it’s still such a waste. It’s just another standard romance plot when it could have been so much more. We could have had Gia outright telling Jake, “Hey, stop being a creep around me.” I guess I can settle for the moral of this episode being, “Be yourself, be straightforward, and that will be the most attractive thing you can do.” It’s something. Maybe we’ll finally get a Gia-focused episode and we’ll see her side of things, even if they are in favor of her liking Jake. The episode does augment the comedy with some unmorphed fighting (THANK GOD) and some unneeded padding. Look, I get the need to have close ups on toys but five shots of the Rangers turning keys in their morphers was more then a bit unnecessary. But between all that we do get an interesting tidbit of information, with the monster of the day revealing he remembers Levira from when they were kids. The idea that monsters, at least those in Vekar’s army aren’t just created for the purpose of fighting the Rangers but actually fully grown, adult monsters that had full childhoods and teen years blows my mind. The Rangers are carelessly destroying monsters that have friends! Loved ones! What if they have kids? This is the kind of thing Power Rangers in Space sort of tackled and while I’m fairly certain it’s nothing more then a throwaway joke, it at least keeps the notion in the viewers mind that the monsters are people to. So all in all a pretty mediocre episode but certainly not a bad one. I’m left with two questions however. What did you think of the episode readers? Let us know in the comments below!
